Location: South and East of Lost Springs, Wyo. This cemetery is well fenced, and for the most part, well marked. There are few old graves; and the cemetery is still in use. There is a very good plot laid out, and the copies are kept by the Baar family who live just north of the cemetery. The use of the cemetery has been by local families, mostly ranchers and farmers in the area.

50 Years Ago
August 19, 1926
Harold, 13-year old son of Jacob Ketcher, living three miles north of Shawnee, met a violent end Tuesday evening when he was dragged to death by a horse. How the accident occurred is not known.

Also included in documents is a legal document signed on September 17, 1938, by John B. Barnes Jr., authorizing William W. Dieleman and Judson P. Watson to "provide, hold, own, maintain and keep in repair a place or places of burial for the dead and to borrow money, execute notes, deed, contracts and mortgages pursuant to the maintenance of such cemetery or cemeteries;"...

There is also a Key to Plot list and a map of plot locations and grave diagram. Both of these documents contain a legal description of the cemetery location.

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